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Except Mondays, Tuesdays and last Friday of a month
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Excursion duration is 6 hours, depends upon traffic jam (including transfer time). Tour price includes transportation, license guide service, entrance tickets and lunch in a stylized restaurant.
Excursion program: trip to the country, 70 km out of Moscow, Sergiev Posad town. Visit to the territory of the Holy Trinity Lavra (Trinity-Sergius Monastery) and the Vestry.
Lavra founded in 1345 by St. Sergius of Radonezh and containing his relics, it is the most important monastery in Russia and the spiritual center of Russian Orthodox Christianity. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site as a fine example of a working Orthodox monastery, with military features that are typical of the 15th to the 18th century.
Behind the Trinity Cathedral is the Vestry (Ritznitsa), which contains the monastery's rich treasury. On display are 600 years worth of donations from the rich and powerful — jewel-encrusted vestments, fine tapestries, solid-gold chalices, etc.
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